Mauritania’s president suggested that his country review its peace deal with Israel. Sidi Abdallahi, who was inaugurated as Mauritania’s head of state April 19, told an Egyptian newspaper that a new decision may be needed on whether the African country should cut off ties with the Jewish state. “There is an Israeli embassy present, so this matter has to be raised and discussed and examined in a way that serves the public interest,” Abdallah told the Al-Akhbar newspaper. Mauritania, Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries to have full relations with Israel, but all have experienced domestic pressure to trim the ties during the past six years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Abdallahi, who replaces a military junta as a Mauritanian civilian leader, is favored in the West.
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